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Happy Towel Day!!! Don't forget to carry your towel with you everywhere (yes, everywhere) you go on May 25th. If you have a camera, snap a few photos of you and your towel, then share them with us on the "Towel Day Pictures" board. If you don't have a camera, just borrow one from a strag. After all, the strag will happily lend you, the hitchhiker, a camera or a dozen other items that you might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that anyone who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly someone to be reckoned with.Click on the banner for instructions on how to put this banner on your web site or signature.

LOLI spent Towel Day with my inlaws once. I brought my towel and made the best of it. They think I'm strange anyway.

Not sure what I'm planning this year. Did you notice Towel Day is on the feast day of The Venerable Bede? Maybe I'll spend Towel Day translating "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" into Vogon.

OK, Towel Day 2012 plans are set! The zoo! Even though we did this back in 2008, I can't come up with anything better, at least that involves the kids too (Yes, I suppose the kids could help translate Bede, but I suspect that would only lead to me spending Towel Day alone).

We will be going to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. Any hitchhikers that will be in the area, and that happen to stumble on this message, are welcome to join us (you can even join towelday.net and we can work out a meeting time and place). Last time we did this we ran into zero fellow hitchhikers and so began the "Towel Day Surprise" in which we asked complete strangers to hold our towels while we took pictures of them - see http://towelday.net/index.php?topic=4733.0 for pics and a little more detail on how it works.

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One of the drivers in training featured in our 2011 Towel Day pictures (see Towel Day 2011 pictures thread), now fully licensed, did some remodeling to the car last night with the help of another vehicle (not to worry, still no towel tourniquet needed). Anyway, the car is out of action so we won't be able to make it to the zoo.

We will have our towels, but we will have to stay in the neighborhood.

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